Pretrial hearings in the case of a man accused of killing four people on an Ottawa farm are expected to stretch into 2014. A Franklin County judge on Monday set a schedule of pretrial hearings for Kyle Flack, 27, of Ottawa, that will take more than seven months. Flack is charged with capital mFull story

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A ministers meeting in December will help decide the fate of the long-stalled Doha round of talks to liberalize world trade, a candidate to head the World Trade Organization said on Monday. Full story

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan resigned unexpectedly on Friday after admitting he had inappropriately written a letter to a tax court on behalf of a constituent. Full story

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